im more upset by the idea that no one cared until an american died on american soil from this illness. people have been dying for weeks now over in
africa and no one threw a fit until it came here.

Duncan was not American. He was a Liberia national. I have looked and everything I can find says he was not an American citizen. Yes, he died here but
he was Liberian and he came here knowing that he had been in contact with Ebola. He was afraid and came here hoping the health care here would save
him. People do care but what this man did was selfish. He exposed more people to Ebola in an effort to save himself.

im having hard time discerning whether you are being apathetic or coldly tactical.

She's telling the truth. This man lived and worked in Liberia. He had a steady job with the FedEx affiliate there ... right up until he helped his
neighbors infected pregnant daughter to the hospital and got exposed.

Then all of a sudden he develops such a hankering for a life of freedom in America and his ex-girlfriend and estranged son that he quits his job
without a word to anyone and lies on his medical exit forms to move heaven and earth to get to Dallas, TX, and American health ca ... er, his
girlfriend and son?

originally posted by: Agit8dChop
This guy was going to die no matter what.
If he had of lived, you'd have thousands of infected west Africans coming to the US for treatment.

poor guy was probably a guinea pig for all we know.

well, he wasn't given any experimental drug until a week later, so I agree with you.....my question is why would the federal government send a black
west African man infected with Ebola to Texas. that's like sending a gay white American to a hospital in Iran. you hope for the best outcome, but,
you're not sure of how well he will be treated.

You think that his race played a part in his quality of care? Are you really that ignorant?

The people who are making this about race should be ashamed of themselves.

My husband deals with government regulations on a daily basis at his job. He can see it all at work in this. They're running the rulebooks for
laboratory biological as if this were a contained situation. When he moves bio samples, it can take upwards of six months just to move samples by
truck that pose no threat to anybody in their present form because in another form, they might.

They're handling this exactly the same ... each one is passing it up the line until some petty bureaucrat will sign off. No one wants to be
responsible or have their name on the dotted line. It's full-on CYA. They're more concerned about their own careers than public health and safety,
and it's obvious they don't believe it will actually touch them, only others, and who cares about those people?

Basically, it needs one person to stand and say "F" the red tape to get things done.

im more upset by the idea that no one cared until an american died on american soil from this illness. people have been dying for weeks now over in
africa and no one threw a fit until it came here.

Wrong. For example, the Christian organization Samaritan's Purse is in Africa, with volunteers risking their LIVES to help stop the outbreak. The
doctor who was infected and came to Atlanta for treatment worked with them.

Of course, those are evil Christians, right??? So what do they matter? [sarcasm]

lets not make this a religious debate, so stick that carrot back in the garden thank you.

Oh, we can't make it religious, but you're perfectly OK to make it racial? I think not. Let's put all our carrots back in the ground now.

The first thing to remember is this man did knowingly come in contact with people who were infected with Ebola. He lied to leave the country and
travel to the USA. That is criminal, it is criminal as he knew he had contact with a person who was showing symptoms and left the country and then
traveled to the USA. Then he shows up here.
Something tells me that he was not exactly forth coming with answers at the hospital, and the hospital was not exactly on the ball to put 2 and 2
together, and thinking that he may have been infected with Ebola. The problem is that with Ebola, is that the initial symptoms, and resembles the
flu. Do you think we should quarantine anyone with the flu, or any number of illnesses, where they have fevers, or vomiting, or diarrhea?

The problem is that they need a quick test, something that they can quickly run and find out yes or no, that is the only real way to be sure and then
quarantine anyone who is suspected of having such and then get them on as much treatment as early as possible. But it also means that the person
needs to be absolutely honest and upfront when going to the hospital or dealing with medical persons. The ones who I am feeling sorry for will be the
children who were in the same home as this man, they are the ones who are going to suffer for this, not him, not his girlfriend, but them.

The saddest part of this all, is that there is another person who they think has come down with Ebola in the area, who had contact with that person.
If it is that case, then people are going to start to panic in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, where people will start to hoard items and not want to go
out, or send their children to school, even starting to avoid the ER and hospitals for fear of catching this.

The other aspect about this, is that this was badly handled from the first part, and hopefully it will get to where they can get it under control
before it gets worse and get their act together.

You can tell how incompetent the whole system is when you look at pictures of people hosing off the sidewalk with no protection. People going into
Duncan’s residence without any protective clothing. This virus is going global do to the incompetence of the system.

Jesse Jackson is worse than the stereotypical lawyer chasing an ambulance. He's a racist inducing plague on humanity. He preaches everything just to
incite political turmoil and violence. I very much hate people that do things like that for pure personal monetary gain.

There's been multiple people turned away at hospitals of all races for much smaller ailments, but non the less they were turned away for something
small, I don't see people up in arms for them. Main stream media will spread this death like racist poison.

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